Like most of you I don’t get very far from my cell phone. It keeps me in touch with our customers, my family & my friends. I swear half the time I pick it up it’s dead or dying even though I’m sure I just had it on the charger.

I’m not a big Facebook user but I dabble. I hadn’t considered how much of an impact the app may have on my phone’s battery life – It came installed on ...

How often do you take clean drinking water for granted? It’s no surprise for me to mention Flint, Michigan. Recently, the town has been in the news countless times–lead-poisoned water is no joke. It’s brought about some stricter standards across the entire nation, as the awful misfortune of some innocent families and children. There are essentially two ways for water to become contaminated–at the source, such as in Flint, and by backflow.

Last week’s blog focused on Double Check assemblies. Today, my series will address how vacuum breaker backflow preventers work-what they do, and where they’re likely to be installed. I’ll be looking at both Pressure Vacuum Breakers (PVB) and Atmospheric Vacuum Breakers (AVB). These two types of cross-connection devices are only used in irrigation, but never in hazardous places, such as chemigation.

I’m doing a series for the curious customer–breaking down how each of the various backflow preventer devices When I think of backflow, I think of double check assemblies. Part of this is because my first understanding of backflow devices comes from when I did work for an irrigation company–it seemed every backflow test report I saw was double-check (aka DC or DCVA–double check valve assembly). To me, when I think backflow, I automatically think of “double check” more often than not.